Education and Training

As a trailblazer in several subspecialty training programs in pediatrics, the medical center has been a birthplace of several professional societies. It is also one of the largest producers of pediatricians in the country. PCMC graduates from the pediatric residency training program as well as from the different clinical fellowship training programs are widely dispersed and have been remarkably providing specialized health services in the countryside. In 2015, a total of 46 trainees have been added to the roster of graduates who have begun offering clinical expertise in different provincial outskirts.

PCMC is the only non-university-based medical center which has maintained a Level IV accreditation in Pediatric Residency Training given by the Philippine Pediatric Society. Aside from this, clinical fellowship training programs offered in the institution have sustained its accreditation. It has maintained a greater than 80% passing mark in the specialty board examination making it one of the few institutions able to sustain top-notch pediatric healthcare training. Numerous medical centers from different parts of the country continue to send their trainees to PCMC to widen their clinical exposure and enhance their training. Over the last 5 years, it has accommodated more than a thousand pediatric residents as affiliates in different clinical care units of PCMC.